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Commentary

New Article! –> Putting all the pieces together.

Together with colleagues from the Universities of North Carolina Chapel Hill and Charlotte, along with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, we are super stoked to finally see Blending Participatory Action Synthesis and Meta-Ethnography: An Innovative Approach to Evaluating Complex Community Health Transformation in print! Here’s the plain language gist of this. Community health improvement initiatives […]

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PubTrawlr News

Pull Up a Seat to a Safe Harbor

We wouldn’t be where are without the amazing open source communities that thrive around the internet, full stop. Anytime I had a debugging problem when putting together PubTrawlr or Readiness Learning Systems, I could almost always get back on the right track by going through posts on Stack Overflow or Medium. So why isn’t there anything like that for […]

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Commentary

C is for Champion

Whenever we go into a new setting, one of our first tasks is to find the people who to be our cheerleaders. These are your key opinion leaders, the person or persons who are your examples, your innovation-specific project leaders, and innovation advisors. These are the people who are going to, well, champion the change.  […]

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Commentary

B is for Best Practice

Let’s make no bones about it. We only want to implement things that will work. We want to select and implement changes with evidence that they will make a difference for the people in our communities. Implementation A-Z is our ongoing series about making the concepts of implementation science straightforward and accessible. So how do […]

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Commentary

A is for Adaptation

A brief introduction. Implementation science is the study of how to get good ideas into practice. Over the past twenty or so years, there has been a huge amount of academic effort spent studying the factors and variables that impact how different evidence-based practices get out into the community. There have been millions of dollars, […]

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Social media analysis

The Core Competencies: The Week in #impsci

Let’s go Socratic for a second. What does it mean to be an implementation practitioner? By that, if you were a person who was interested in getting good ideas into practice, what are the fundamental skill or first principles you need to adopt? The Center for Implementation has the answer. When I was going over […]

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Social media analysis

What Twitter said last week about #Impsci.

Much of the Twitter chatter last week was a generation in a discussion that focused on collaboration in…..well, you can see the question at right. Our top tweeters? Why, it’s our former colleague, Dr. Heather Brandt! We worked with Dr. Brandt on organizational readiness assessment for colorectal cancer screening a while back. If you’d like […]

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